NO, big failure is not a necessity for achieving huge success. I believe, hard working can be considered the main necessity for achieving huge success.

NO, big failure is not a necessity for achieving huge success. I believe, hard working can be considered the main necessity for achieving huge success.

I agree with the views of  Mahfuz that hard work and perseverance are the necessary elements of success, rather than big failures.

I think that there is no success without  failures because when you try new things in your way to success you have to make decisions that might sometime lead to the wrong solution for the transient phase; the resulting of this experience leads  for achieving huge success.

I agree with you both, that hard work plus the analysis of situations can help us achieve.

I wish all RG the best achievements, in every sense, for 2015.

Kind regards, M.

If one absorbs the shock of a big failure with resilience & determination, then the logical consequence will be avoidance of repetition of a failure but this will not lead necessarily into huge success.

Yes to the wisdom (What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Stronger) but strength alone does not bring results; a good diligent effort does.

No doubt failure helps in success provided one learns from the failure. However, there is no substitute of motivation and hard work.

Sometimes you manage to get something published (or a grant proposal accepted) after several failed attempts and after rewriting the paper/application several times, sometimes you have luck and the first journal you try will accept your work (or your proposal succeeds): so, you don't necessarily have to fail before achieving success, but still, you may experience failure several times during your career. The main thing is not to give up after failures but make improvements and try again.

I think failure is just part of the path to success. We should not discouraged by failures, rather should be determined to achieve success.

I think the success and failures are the two faces of a coin but the resilience and determination make all the difference.

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand. Vince Lombardi

Big failure is not a necessity for achieving huge success.  . As researchers, We have to face small or big failures at some point in our career. When failure happens, We should accept that failures and mistakes are realities of life, and it actually helps us grow Intellectually. It is important to learn our lessons from failures and continue with more determination.

Failure is not more than an interpretation

Success leads to cherish and acclaim a state of achievement; while failures lead to learning from experiences "to not fall again". While none can achieve every-time and continuously, some failures need to be accommodated within the risk planning.  Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." This need for “job-security” and such is exactly what keeps most people from living a truly satisfying and successful life. The illusion of safety blinds them to the fact that, ultimately, life is passing them by whilst they are hiding in the bushes. The real living is out in the open.

http://www.motivation-for-dreamers.com/risk-taking.html

It depends on the person personality. It may influence a person positively or negatively. 

Churchill used to say "that success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

While Rowling comments that "it is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default."

Nevertheless, I personally believe that it's likely that once succeed on their first attempt, and an essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail, however one may keeps failing a dozen times without learning from the mistakes, hence, failure will not lead to success.

I think failures should be considered as hurdles in the path of success. We should cross these hurdles with persistence to achieve the desired success. In general bigger the hurdles, bigger the success.

It depends, some people break down by bid hurdles. Success will come with the people those keep mental pace and balance during and after hurdles and put concentrated and big efforts continuously.

I fully agree with Prof. Kundu that the big success is achieved by those who keep mental pace and balance during and after hurdles and put concentrated and big efforts continuously.

Dear Paul, You are right because achieving a huge success needs lots of conviction, hard work, determination, and perseverance etc., which are all very difficult to practice, particularly on a long-term period. That is why a very few people in history have achieved huge success.

Mistake Call Them Unexpected Learning Experiences - Richard Bach

No. A huge success is the result of knowledge and of many other abilities, strategies, hard work and especially determination. Failure is just a test from which you may know how far you were from your final goal.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time. -George Bernard Shaw

If learning happens through trial and error, then you need to try, and more importantly, you need to err. - By Larry Weinzimmer and Jim McConoughey

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.- Thomas Huxley

To err is human.

"to err is human; to forgive, divine" (Alexander Pope).

With the increase in number of trials the annoying responses will tend to be eliminated and the satisfying responses will be strengthened and repeated, and the time taken to perform the task (to repeat the satisfying response) decreases with successive trials.

Yes Jeanan, I agree that successive trial and errors will increase the chances of getting big success. The key is not quitting.

Dear RG Fellows,

Thank you very much for your participation.

Happy New Year 2015 with hope that you will have many blessings in it.

By crawling, a child learns to stand. -- Hausa (West African) (on experience)

After crosses and losses, men grow humbler and wiser. -- Ben Franklin 

Determined, whole-hearted and sincere efforts in right direction are the key to success. In research, there is nothing like failure. Any kind of so called failure is also a lesson or finding. After 1000 tries, Thomas Edison himself told “I could find 1000 ways that will not work”. And Finally he found the one that worked and made a history.

I think that every failure is a good lesson, but there is a need of moving on in the path of success with even more determination.

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. -Bill Cosby

Yes, dear Ajay. The desire for success should be greater than fear. Always, drive fear out.

Is big failure a necessity for achieving huge success?

For normal people absolutely yes (mistakenly learns, says a proverb).

For the predestined, no. Their genes do not need to learn from mistakes because success is a duty.

Yes, I agree that the fear should be driven out by the strong desire to achieve big success.

I agree with @Ierardi that for average people the failure may be necessary to achieve success. But I think it helps only if s/he is ready to lean from her/his failures and mistakes.

Those work may commit mistake, but, those don't work will not commit any mistake. Successful people never repeat mistake, so, this is important for success.

Yes, this is true that even a genius makes many mistakes but s/he never repeats the same mistake. On the other hand, an unsuccessful person makes the same mistake repeatedly and it seems if s/he is not ready to accept her/his mistake.

I think successive failures leads to success provided that we never stop trying:

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.-Winston Churchill

Dear Ajay, maintaining continuous enthusiasm is must. If lost, one is bound to fail or accepting failure.

The loss of enthusiasm means not trying hard enough to achieve big success.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm. -Henry David Thoreau

All great and honorable actions are accompanied with great difficulties. - William Bradford

Failures are bound to happen when ignored or unaware or poorly planned in the progress towards success.

I think 'persistence' is the key to achieving big success:

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.- Thomas Edison

Successful people never worry for failures. They learn from failures and use these as opportunities.

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.- C. S. Lewis

Huge success depends on many factors or key elements - can include big failures or may be without its experience 

I agree that big success can be achieved with or without big failures. Some people get success straightforward without much struggle.

Failures should be the first teacher for every successful one.

Failures are stepping stones to success only if one learns from his/her failures.

I will not use the word failure speaking about the research process. Every unsuccessful attempt gives better understanding of the problem which we are studying. Moreover those attempts are related with learning of new methods, technique and so on.

Yes, every failure/unsuccessful attempt reveals our weakness that must be overcome.  It guides and inspires us to put in more effort and it also reveals the weakness of our planning.

To many in our success-driven society, failure isn’t just considered a non-option, it’s deemed a deficiency. Of all the things we are wrong about, this idea of error might well top the list. It is our meta-mistake: We are wrong about what it means to be wrong. Far from being a sign of intellectual inferiority, the capacity to err is crucial to human cognition. When we take a closer look at the great thinkers throughout history, a willingness to take on failure isn’t a new or extraordinary thought at all. From the likes of Augustine, Darwin and Freud to the business mavericks and sports legends of today, failure is as powerful a tool as any in reaching great success. Failure and defeat are life’s greatest teachers [but] sadly, most people, and particularly conservative corporate cultures, don’t want to go there. Instead they choose to play it safe, to fly below the radar, repeating the same safe choices over and over again. They operate under the belief that if they make no waves, they attract no attention; no one will yell at them for failing because they generally never attempt anything great at which they could possibly fail (or succeed).

I think that fear of failures prevents us from taking risks and in general, no risk no gain, more risk more gain (success).

As C.S. Lewis said, “Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.” As we fail, we are pointed in a direction. We learn a lot from failures because they can help us get better

I do not believe in failures or success but believe in learning , learning aptitude, skill, expertise and experiences.

I agree that taking calculated risk could be a very positive step for getting desired success.

If someone is passionate about something and possesses the required skills and determination, success may just be a matter of time for him/her.

I personally believe and It is believed that experience is a wonderful thing. It enables us to recognize a mistake when we make it again.

There is an interesting paper attached herewith.

Article Presentation of Differential Laser-induced fluorimetry as a ...

Life is not all cakes and ale. There is no wide highroad in science as well as in life. To B.Slutsky, "I feel sorry for the weak, I feel sorry for the ill, I feel more much sorry for the person, who was knocked down and tried to rise again, but couldn't".To A. Popov, "A strong man is not those, who doesn't fall, but those, who is able to rise after falling"

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.- Confucius

Failure is just feedback; it’s simply showing you what’s not working so you can find out what will work. It’s necessary and can’t be avoided. Anyone who has achieved anything great, anyone who has changed the world has at some point made a choice to embrace failure instead of fighting it. If Thomas Edison had believed in failure, we would still be living in darkness. If Henry Ford had given up, we would still be riding on horseback. The process of learning from our mistakes is truly invaluable, and is something we need to run toward, not run away from.

We are human and we make mistakes. And there is so much learning that can happen within those mistakes.

Children fell many times before they learn to walk.  Children have a  sense of resilience and determination. If they were too caught up in the fact that they’d fail many times and chose to play it safe, they would go through life crawling!

As we get older, we take fewer risks and are quicker to judge and adopt avoidance behaviors. I urge you all to consider the concept of celebrating failure.

If we have a positive attitude, the failures can be our best teacher and we can avoid failures only by doing nothing.

“Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that’s where you will find success.”

 Thomas J. Watson

Repeated Failure is not learning; it is unpreparedness or wastage of resources

Actually, failures and mistakes are only helpful, in achieving great success, when one learns from them and not repeat the same.

Who works may commit mistake and face failure and can manage it. Who does not work will not face any failure, it does not mean one is successful.

I think the time spent making progressive mistakes is more respectable than sitting idle.

"A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying."

B. F. Skinner

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.

Yes, I fully agree that if you're not failing from time to time, perhaps you're not trying anything new.

Every system/methodology has its limitations. So, best is to apply correct methodology for the system.Eg, we can get correct information of metal to ligand ratio for any metallochromic indicator system by applying  log ratio method.

An interesting paper is attached herewith.

Article A study of Indicator Properties of the o-Hydroxyazo Dye

Fear of failure derails progress and thereby success in life

Yes, fear of failure derails progress because many times it results in inaction, which leads nowhere.

I strongly differ in opinion with Dr. Ajai Singh, (the question originator):  Big failure is not a necessity for achieving huge success

Standard books and literature are our best friend.

For success, one should be very careful in planning our experiments and judiciously cite the published papers/references after thorough reading ,adopt the correct procedures followed by more reliable and meaningful conclusions.

Most recent example for big success is: Mars mission of India

I am attaching copies of publications and also others letter to editors article available in my profile.

Article Uranium Exploration

Article Letter to the Editor: Comments related to the publication ti...

Article Comments on Uranium Concentration in Groundwater in Hisar City, India

Article Letter to Editor : Geochemical modeling of uranium speciatio...

Article Letter to Editor : Query related to publication titled “A co...

Scientists are humans and make mistakes and fail sometimes. The key is to learn from mistakes. As beautifully said by Jules Verne

Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth

I think making mistakes is not bad itself, but not learning from these mistakes is.

If someone is not willing to learn from his/her mistakes, he/she may never get huge success.

Only people who work hard and continuously have the courage to face failure and learn from it to do better in future.

Yes, I agree that who work hard continuously and have the courage to face failures and learn from them, would get success.

“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”

Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

Yes, dear @Mohammad, this is true that fear of failure is one of the biggest hurdles in the path to success because it stops one from taking risks, which is necessary for getting huge success.

Yes, Mohammad, we can complete the work when we think only "We Can". If we don't think so, we can not complete.

Actually 'I can' is a big positive for getting success:

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.- Elbert Hubbard

 I think 'confidence' is the key to getting huge success as pointed by 'Mark Twain': To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.